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We provide Adobe Captivate training in Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset. Locations include Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Ringwood, Andover, Basingstoke, Dorchester, Farnborough, Ferndown, Portsmouth, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Weston-super-mare, etc.

Number on coursePrice per day
1 - 1 training£345 + VAT
2 - 4 people£525 + VAT
5 - 8 people£745 + VAT

Aims of the Introductory Adobe Captivate Training Course

This two-day course aims to take the delegate from the very basics of project development workflow and creating a project to finally publishing that project to make it available to their learning cohort.

Course Objectives

By the end of the Introductory Adobe Captivate training course, learners will be able to:

  • Create projects
  • Create slides
  • Work with slide objects
  • Add multimedia to projects
  • Publish a project

How the course is run – This instructor-led course has a hands-on approach, with plenty of opportunity for delegates to practise the new skills they learn at the computer.

Pre-requisites – Familiarity with the Windows environment.

Provisional Course Outline

eLEARNING

  • The pros and cons of e-Learning
  • Research and planning
  • Types of eLearning
  • Examples of eLearning

WORKFLOWS

  • Soft skill projects
  • Software demo projects

INTRODUCING CAPTIVATE

  • Overview
  • Running Captivate in admin mode
  • Filing and file types
  • Tour of the interface
  • Setting Captivate preferences

WORKING ON A PROJECT

  • Creating a new project
  • Setting project defaults and preferences

SLIDES

  • Creating slides
  • Working with slides
  • Setting slide properties
  • Creating slide groups
  • Previewing slides

SLIDE CONTENT

  • HTML5 compatibility overview
  • Adding slide objects
  • Working with the Timeline
  • Setting slide object properties

SLIDE OBJECT TYPES

  • Text Captions
  • Images
  • Characters
  • Smart Shapes
  • Highlight boxes
  • Zoom areas

WORKING WITH SLIDE OBJECTS

  • Arranging slide content
  • Using styles
  • Adding effects

NAVIGATION

  • Buttons and basic actions for branching
  • Branching view

MULTIMEDIA

  • Encoding video
  • Adding video
  • Editing video
  • Calibrating the microphone
  • Recording audio
  • Editing audio
  • Importing audio
  • Slide notes and the script
  • Text to speech

RECORDING A DEMO OR SOFTWARE SIMULATION

  • What gets recorded?
  • Setting recording preferences
  • Choosing a recording mode
  • Setting up the computer before recording
  • Starting a recording and setting recording options
  • Recording a new project
  • Recording using a template
  • Post recording slide editing
  • Working with the mouse path
  • Recording a video demo

QUIZZES

  • Adding Question Slides
  • Types of Question slides
  • Setting quiz preferences

THE CAPTIVATE PLAYER

  • Customising the player skin
  • Modifying the Table of Contents

PUBLISHING A PROJECT

  • Publish settings
  • Publishing to an LMS
  • Publishing to HTML 5
  • Other output options

To request further details of any of our courses, or to make a booking for Introductory Adobe Captivate training, please contact us by ringing 01747 820396 or 07477 578417 or by sending an email to info@archwayct.co.uk or filling in our contact form.